In every age of well-marked transition, there is the pattern of habitual dumb practice and emotion which is passing and there is oncoming a new complex of habit.

I do not want my house to be walled in on all sides and my windows to be stuffed. I want the cultures of all the lands to be blown about my house as freely as possible. But I refuse to be blown off my feet by any.

Mahatma Gandhi

My parents- they've been my biggest influences and supporters since day one. They teach me every day that happiness comes from within and not from something outside of your heart.

Shawn Johnson

Absence diminishes little passions and increases great ones, as wind extinguishes candles and fans a fire.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Gardens are not made by singing 'Oh, how beautiful,' and sitting in the shade.

Rudyard Kipling

The problem with falling in love is falling back out of it again, usually because you've fallen in love with a lie. That happens as often as not.

Ellen Hopkins

The noblest exercise of the mind within doors, and most befitting a person of quality, is study.

Sir William Ramsay

Many have gone on to do important scientific work but all remember those wonderful times when we and our science were young and our excitement in meeting new challenges knew no bounds.

Sydney Brenner

Chance makes our parents, but choice makes our friends.

Jacques Delille

Dalton's records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bombing of Manchester. It is not only the living who are killed in war.

Isaac Asimov

As more good comes your way, your belief will increase, until you move past it into the realm of conviction.

Stephen Richards

The bottom line is that you have to choose who you are going to commit to-- that's the foundation of true love, not the lack of other options

Stephenie Meyer

One thought driven home is better than three left on base.

James Liter